[Milsurplus] ADF today

[Mark K3MSB]

A group of hams operating a navigation aid for fun?   That would work until
the first aircraft crashes because the NDB calibration was only to "Ham
Standards".......

Mark K3MSB

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 5:58 PM Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 4/24/2020 1:42 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
> > who is maintaining them?
>
> NDBs operating today are under FAA control as always.  But they are
> being decommissioned at a too-rapid rate, and nobody seems to care or
> understand the value of having backup technology.   With the exception
> of Canada it seems, who is reducing the number but still seems committed
> to the blowtorch beacons that have much higher operational costs.
>
> I proposed hams or experimental radio groups take them over and operate
> them as a public service/hobby, perhaps under experimental licenses on
> another list but there wasn't much interest.     It would be nice if the
> national organization for amateur radio were to see this as an opportunity.
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
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